The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-01-07
FARM AND GARDEN.

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cream.
Some dairymen save the last fourth
of the milk from the cow in a separate
vessel, and pour it directly into a cream
jar.
Give the sheep a mess of ground
oats every evening from now until the
Landing period. AS soon as grass fails
give them all the hay they can eat.
A contemporary suggests that a COW
can be easily led by a halter that con
mands her nose, but with difficulty by
a rope around her thorns. 1t is a fact.
1t is useless to hope to destroy the
acidity of certain soils by the applica-
ton of lime and other supposed correc-
tives; only drainage will accomplish it.
Horses are not fully matured until
six years of age, o do they arrive al
their full strength until eight years
old. Immature animals are often
overtaxed and their future usefulness
injured.
The liberal use of dry dirt will assist
in removing the pungent and offensive
doors of the COW stable. Once a week
a good sprinkling of a solution of cop
peras will also prove beneficial.
Norfolk, Va, is the greatest straw
berry shipping place in the world.
Among the many strawberry farms in
its neighborhood is one of 44O acres,
the largest strawberry farm in the
world.
The longer we are engaged in pure
ly experimental farming the more evil
dent it becomes that the average farm
er cannot afford to experiment in a
careful, systematic way for himself
Rural NeW Yorker.
Bookkeeping is a profitable industry
to those who are adapted to and thor
oughly understand the business. A
young man in Illinois has already sold
10, 400 pounds of honey this season from
1876 colonies of bees.
After frost has pinched the grasses
they are no longer sufficient for cattle
that must be kept in good flesh, nor for
cows giving milk. Add enough grain,
aud the grass will serve much better to
maintain good condition.
The best bed for pigs is one made OF
leaves. Fine litter of any kind is al
ways preferred by them to that which
is coarse, and the cheapest and most
convenient is leaves, which require no
preparation for that purpose.
There is a large field open for those
who will make a specially of fax. 1t is
aquick-growing crop, is as easily grown
as wheat, and improved machinery has
made it more easily fitted for market.
1t gives a profit in both straw and seed.
The draught horse enthusiasm grows
with increasing success all over the
West. Western farmers have decided
to raise a better class of horses and
more of them. The grade draught horse
is a universal favorite in the highest
demand at the highest price, a cash
article, a profit and a pride TO the
breeder.
Fowls are SO provided that they can
grind any kind of food eaten. Grinding
the food for them is therefore not nee
essary, unless for the purpose of feed
ing a mixture OF variety that can not
be given them in any other shape. They
should always have plenty of gravel
Tor grinding purposes.
Do not feed the hogs exclusively on
corn as long as the weather is favora-
bic for them in the fields. They should
De kept growing Is long as possible;
and need no corn until penned. Even
then the diet should be of a varied kind
n not consist of corr alone, as corn
digests more readily and gives better
results when fed in connection with
roots. grass or other bulky food.
A sw ne-breeder says that in weaving
pigs there is something more to be
considered than simply taking them
from their mother. They should be
weaned gradually, so as not to receive
any stunt or setback. To take pigs
away before they have been taught to
eat gives them check for at least two
weeks Feeding them in a separate
place to which they have access will
accustom them to eating.
A Virginian tells how he packs cab
bage: We have tried all sorts Of
a to keep cabbage over winter, and
at last hit upon q plan / haven't 9
In any OF our papers. We take the
heads only, and placing barrels in q
corner of an unused stable put in a